And in a neighborhood where the shops have names like Valentino and Armani and where a burger and fries can cost upward of $20, many customers are beguiled by the idea of, for example, a chicken platter -- grilled chicken with salad and rice -- for $5. "It's cheap, it's clean, it's delicious," Tony Rivera, a doorman who works at 63rd Street and Madison Avenue, said of Mr. Dragonas's food.
Truly, the idea of, for example, centrally managing unique prices by location or zone has really only been possible in the last 2 decades.
There's been for decades a resistance in some quarters of standard medicine to anything that doesn't seem measurable, to the idea of, for example, even acupuncture – things that are not part of the Western medical canon.
There are fine exceptions, of course, books whose pieces are linked not by mere repetition of the protagonist but by genuine artfulness and imaginative necessity: Joan Silber's splendid new "Ideas of Heaven," for example, in which the smallest wisp of one story will, in the next, sometimes blaze to full, unexpected life.
It is the ideas of Jeff Koons and Damian Hirst, for example, that have given these artists their riches and their renown.
The intensely apocalyptical ideas of David Koresh, for example, led him and other Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, to a tragic end.
But at the same time I would like to see people who are involved in direct action and things like that actually taking the ideas of Transition for example and saying "well I might not just want to occupy a public space, I might want to occupy a public space and grow some food.
Using the ideas of Rancière, for example, might be helpful, but there is not space here to take them into consideration.
This is important to the theory, since the idea of cold or the idea of sweet, for example, insofar as they are ideas, represent something to the mind, but they are not visual images.
To have an actual idea of God, for example, one must have actual ideas of the ideas that compose it.
